Led lamp string

ABSTRACT

The present invention relates to LED lamp string, comprising at least three conducting wires with insulating layers. One of the conducting wires is a positive conducting wire, and the others are negative conducting wires. A mounting part is provided on each negative conducting wire at every certain interval. A light emitting wafer is fixed to the mounting part. The light emitting wafer comprises a first electrode and a second electrode which are separately provided. The first electrode of the light emitting wafer connected with each negative conducting wire is electrically connected with the conductor of the same negative conducting wire. The second electrode is electrically connected with the conductor of the positive conducting wire via a wire. A transparent outer sealing gum encapsulating the mounting part, the light emitting wafer and the wire is provided on the LED lamp string.

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates to the field of illumination, and morespecifically to an LED lamp string.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

The lamp strings in the market generally comprise LED lamps welded onthe conducting wire, thus having reduced the beauty of the structure andincreased the cost. Alternatively, the LED lamp strings have two wires,on which the light emitting wafers are connected in parallel based onthe enameled wire, one of the wires is positive electrode, and the otheris negative electrode, the string of lamps will be lighted if two wiresare communicated. Besides that, the lamp string is a kind ofmonochromatic lamp whose light color doesn't change and appearance isn'tnice enough, and the color diversity can be achieved only by usingmultiple monochromatic enameled wires.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The object of the present invention is to provide an LED lamp string,aiming at the defects that the above structure is not nice, the cost ishigh and the color is single in the prior art.

The technical solutions of the present invention for solving thetechnical problems are as follows: an LED lamp string is provided, itcomprises at least three conducting wires with insulating layers, one ofthe conducting wires is a positive conducting wire, and the others arenegative conducting wires; a mounting part is provided on each negativeconducting wire at every certain intervals, a light emitting wafer isfixed to the mounting part; the light emitting wafer comprises a firstelectrode and a second electrode which are separately provided;

the first electrode of the light emitting wafer on each negativeconducting wire is electrically connected with a conductor of the samenegative conducting wire, the second electrode is electrically connectedwith a conductor of the positive conducting wire via a wire; atransparent outer sealing gum encapsulating the mounting part, the lightemitting wafer and the wire is provided on the LED lamp string.

In the LED lamp string according to the present invention, the mountingpart is a flat mounting part.

In the LED lamp string according to the present invention, the LED lampstring comprises three conducting wires with insulating layers, one ofthe conducting wires is a positive conducting wire, and the others are afirst negative conducting wire and a second negative conducting wire;

the first electrode of the light emitting wafer on the first negativeconducting wire is electrically connected with the conductor of the samenegative conducting wire via a conducting gum, the first electrode ofthe light emitting wafer on the second negative conducting wire iselectrically connected with the conductor of the same negativeconducting wire via the wire, the second electrode of the light emittingwafer on the first negative conducting wire and the second negativeconducting wire is electrically connected with the conductor of thepositive conducting wire via the wire.

In the LED lamp string according to the present invention, the LED lampstring comprises four conducting wires with insulating layers, one ofthe conducting wires is a positive conducting wire, and the others are afirst negative conducting wire, a second negative conducting wire and athird conducting wire;

the first electrode of the light emitting wafer on each of the firstnegative conducting wire and the second conducting wire is electricallyconnected with the conductor of the same negative conducting wire viathe wire, the first electrode of the light emitting wafer on the thirdnegative conducting wire is electrically connected with the conductor ofthe same negative conducting wire via a conducting gum;

the second electrode of the light emitting wafer on the first negativeconducting wire is electrically connected with the conductor of thepositive conducting wire via the wire, the second electrode of the lightemitting wafer on the second negative conducting wire is electricallyconnected with the second electrode of the light emitting wafer on thefirst negative conducting wire via the wire, the second electrode of thelight emitting wafer on the third negative conducting wire iselectrically connected with the second electrode of the light emittingwafer on the second negative conducting wire via the wire.

In the LED lamp string according to the present invention, the wire is agold wire, a silver wire, or an aluminum wire.

In the LED lamp string according to the present invention, the LED lampstring is further electrically connected with an IC controller whichcontrols the flash mode of the light emitting wafer.

In the LED lamp string according to the present invention, the lightemitting wafer is fixed to the mounting part of the conducting wire viaa solid crystal gum.

By implementing the LED lamp string in the present invention, thefollowing advantages can be achieved: the multiplicity of the colors isrealized by parallel wires and an external IC controller. The lightemitting wafer is directly fixed to the conducting wire encapsulatedwith the insulating layer, thus the cost is reduced and the productionis more convenient. The LED lamp string is compact and slim, making theproduct more beautiful, with good flexibility and wide range ofapplications.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The present invention will be further described with reference to theaccompanying drawings and embodiments, in the accompanying drawings:

FIG. 1 illustrates the structure of an LED lamp string according to afirst embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 illustrates the structure of an LED lamp string according to asecond embodiment of the present invention;

List of References: 1 denotes the positive conducting wire, 2 denotesthe first negative conducting wire, 3 denotes the second negativeconducting wire, 4 denotes the third negative conducting wire, 5 denotesthe mounting part, 6 denotes the light emitting wafer, 7 denotes thewire, 8 denotes the transparent outer sealing gum.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT The First Embodiment

As shown in FIG. 1, in the first embodiment of the present invention, anLED lamp string comprises three conducting wires with insulating layers,including a shared positive conducting wire 1, a first negativeconducting wire 2 and a second negative conducting wire 3. These threeconducting wires constitute a galvanic circle. It should be noted that ashared negative conducting wire also can be adopted, and two positiveconducting wires and the shared negative conducting wire constitute agalvanic circle. The conducting wire comprises a conductor and aninsulating layer encapsulating the conductor. The insulating layer isusually made of insulating paint which resistant to high temperature.Wherein, a mounting part 5 is provided on the first negative conductingwire 2 and the second negative conducting wire 3 at every certaininterval, and all mounting parts 5 are set on the same position of eachnegative conducting wire to facilitate the color configuration. Themounting part 5 may be a flat mounting part to facilitate mounting.Namely, this part of the conducting wire is punched to be flat and theconductor of the conducting wire is revealed, and then a light emittingwafer 6 is fixed to the mounting part 5 via a solid crystal gum.

The light emitting wafer 6 comprises two electrodes including a firstelectrode and a second electrode. Usually, the first electrode of eachof the red light emitting wafer and the yellow light emitting wafer islocated at the bottom of the wafer, so that this kind of wafer can befixed to the mounting part 5 via the conducting gum to enable the firstelectrode electrically connected with the conductor of the sameconducting wire. However, the first electrode of each of the green lightemitting wafer and the blue light emitting wafer is electricallyconnected with the conductor of the same conducting wire via a wire 7.

It should be noted that, only the light emitting wafers with the samepower can be fixed to the same negative conducting wire. For example,the red light emitting wafer and the yellow light emitting wafer havethe same power, and the green and blue light emitting wafer have thesame power. In the present embodiment, the light emitting wafers 6 onthe first negative conducting wire 2 are alternate red and yellowwafers, and the light emitting wafers 6 on the second negativeconducting wire 3 are alternate green and blue wafers. Thus the LED lampstring is more colorful. It is also possible that all the light emittingwafers fixed on the first negative conducting wire 2 are red or yellow,and all the light emitting wafers fixed on the second negativeconducting wire 3 are green or blue.

In order to connect the light emitting wafers 6 on the first negativeconducting wire 2 and that on the second negative conducting wire 3 inparallel, the second electrodes of all the light emitting wafers 6 areelectrically connected with the conductor of the shared positiveconducting wire 1 via the wire 7. The wire 7 may be a gold wire, asilver wire, or an aluminum wire.

In order to protect the above connecting structure of the LED lampstring, the adjacent light emitting wafers 6 on two negative conductingwires are encapsulated with a transparent outer sealing gum (referringto FIG. 1). The transparent outer sealing gum can not only protect theconnection between the light emitting wafer 6 and the conducting wire,but also not affect the light emission, thus making the whole LED lampstring more beautiful.

At the same time, an external controlling circuit can be connected tothe conducting wires of the LED lamp string to achieve flash and coloreffects, thus making the LED lamp string display richer shining effects.

The Second Embodiment

Referring to FIG. 2, in the embodiment, the LED lamp string comprisesfour conducting wires with insulating layers, including a sharedpositive conducting wire 1, a first negative conducting wire 2, a secondnegative conducting wire 3 and a third conducting wire 4. It should benoted that a shared negative conducting wire also can be adopted, andthree positive conducting wires and the shared negative conducting wireconstitute a galvanic circle. A mounting part 5 is provided on eachnegative conducting wire at every certain interval. The mounting part 5may be punched to be a flat mounting part. The light emitting wafer 6 isfixed to the negative conducting wire via the solid crystal gum.

The first electrode of the light emitting wafer 6 on each of the firstnegative conducting wire 2 and the second conducting wire 3 iselectrically connected with the conductor of the same negativeconducting wire via the wire 7. As the first electrode of the lightemitting wafer 6 on the third negative conducting wire 4 is located atthe bottom of the light emitting wafer 6, the first electrode iselectrically connected with the conductor of the same negativeconducting wire via a conducting gum. In order to connect the lightemitting wafers 6 on each of three negative conducting wires inparallel, the second electrode of the light emitting wafer 6 on thefirst negative conducting wire 2 is electrically connected with theconductor of the positive conducting wire 1 via the wire 7, the secondelectrode of the light emitting wafer 6 on the second negativeconducting wire 3 is electrically connected with the second electrode ofthe adjacent light emitting wafer 6 on the first negative conductingwire 2 via the wire 7, the second electrode of the light emitting wafer6 on the third negative conducting wire 4 is electrically connected withthe second electrode of the adjacent light emitting wafer 6 on thesecond negative conducting wire 3 via the wire 7. The wire 7 may be agold wire, a silver wire, or an aluminum wire.

It should be noted that, in the present embodiment, the light emittingwafers 6 on the first negative conducting wire 2 are all red, the lightemitting wafers 6 on the second negative conducting wire 3 are allyellow, and the light emitting wafers 6 on the third negative conductingwire 4 are all blue. Thus, the LED lamp string can emit light of sevendifferent colors if it is connected with an external IC controller, toachieve a colorful effect.

Similarly, in order to protect the connecting structure of the LED lampstring, the adjacent light emitting wafers 6 are encapsulated with atransparent outer sealing gum 8 (as shown in FIG. 2). The transparentouter sealing gum 8 can not only protect the connection between thelight emitting wafer 6 and the conducting wire, but also not affect thelight emission, thus making the whole LED lamp string more beautiful.

While the present invention has been described with reference topreferred embodiments, it will be understood by one skilled in the artthat various changes and equivalents may be substituted withoutdeparting from the scope of the present invention, and those variouschanges and equivalents shall fall into the protection of the invention.

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 8. An LED lamp string, comprising at least threeconducting wires with insulating layers, one of the conducting wires isa positive conducting wire, and the others are negative conductingwires; a mounting part is provided on each negative conducting wire atevery certain intervals, a light emitting wafer is fixed to the mountingpart; the light emitting wafer comprises a first electrode and a secondelectrode which are separately provided; the first electrode of thelight emitting wafer on each negative conducting wire is electricallyconnected with a conductor of the same negative conducting wire, thesecond electrode is electrically connected with a conductor of thepositive conducting wire via the wire; a transparent outer sealing gumencapsulating the mounting part, the light emitting wafer and the wireis provided on the LED lamp string.
 9. The LED lamp string according toclaim 8, wherein the mounting part is a flat mounting part.
 10. The LEDlamp string according to claim 8, wherein the LED lamp string comprisesthree conducting wires with insulating layers, one of the conductingwires is a positive conducting wire, and the others are a first negativeconducting wire and a second negative conducting wire; the firstelectrode of the light emitting wafer on the first negative conductingwire is electrically connected with the conductor of the same negativeconducting wire via a conducting gum, the first electrode of the lightemitting wafer on the second negative conducting wire is electricallyconnected with the conductor of the same negative conducting wire viathe wire, the second electrode of the light emitting wafer on the firstnegative conducting wire and the second negative conducting wire iselectrically connected with the conductor of the positive conductingwire via the wire.
 11. The LED lamp string according to claim 8, whereinthe LED lamp string comprises four conducting wires with insulatinglayers, one of the conducting wires is a positive conducting wire, andthe others are a first negative conducting wire, a second negativeconducting wire and a third conducting wire; the first electrode of thelight emitting wafer on each of the first negative conducting wire andthe second conducting wire is electrically connected with the conductorof the same negative conducting wire via the wire, the first electrodeof the light emitting wafer on the third negative conducting wire iselectrically connected with the conductor of the same negativeconducting wire via a conducting gum; the second electrode of the lightemitting wafer on the first negative conducting wire is electricallyconnected with the conductor of the positive conducting wire via thewire, the second electrode of the light emitting wafer on the secondnegative conducting wire is electrically connected with the secondelectrode of the light emitting wafer on the first negative conductingwire via the wire, the second electrode of the light emitting wafer onthe third negative conducting wire is electrically connected with thesecond electrode of the light emitting wafer on the second negativeconducting wire via the wire.
 12. The LED lamp string according to claim8, wherein the wire is a gold wire, a silver wire, or an aluminum wire.13. The LED lamp string according to claim 10, wherein the wire is agold wire, a silver wire, or an aluminum wire.
 14. The LED lamp stringaccording to claim 11, wherein the wire is a gold wire, a silver wire,or an aluminum wire.
 15. The LED lamp string according to claim 8,wherein the LED lamp string is further electrically connected with an ICcontroller which controls the flash mode of the light emitting wafer.16. The LED lamp string according to claim 8, wherein, the lightemitting wafer is fixed to the mounting part of the conducting wire viaa solid crystal gum.